Peter Hunter Blair (1912–September 1982) was an English academic and historian specializing in the Anglo-Saxon period.
In 1969 he married the children's author, Pauline Clarke.
She edited his Anglo-Saxon Northumbria in 1984.Hunter Blair was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.
His published works include:
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation and Its Importance Today: Jarrow Lecture 1959.
Jarrow Lectures.
1959.
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, with a new introduction by Simon Keynes (Third ed.).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2003 [1956].
ISBN 0-521-53777-0.
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C.
– A.D.
871.
Norton Library History of England.
Edinburgh & New York: Nelson, W.
W.
Norton & Company.
1963.
ISBN 0-351-15318-7.
The Coming of Pout.
London: Jonathan Cape.
1966.
The World of Bede.
London: Secker & Warburg.
1970.
ISBN 0-436-05010-2.
Northumbria in the Days of Bede.